We wonder who will be playing Sooraj Pancholi

Sakshi Tanwar’s new show Code Redis in the news even before the show begins. It seems one of their episodes will be based on the life story of actress Jiah Khan, who mysteriously died last year.

We wonder if Freemantle Media took permission from Jiah’s mother Rabia Amin. Because as we remember, the last time when Crime Patrol was all set to showcase an episode on the mysterious death of Jiah Khan, her mother created a huge issue. Apparently the makers of Crime Patrol had not taken permission from her to showcase Jiah’s story.

We hear that Vindhya Tiwary will be seen as Jiah in the episode but her name will be changed to Ishita on the show. Well we truly wonder which actor they plan to rope in as Jiah Khan’s lover and what will be the angle of the story. Will Code Red incriminate Sooraj Pancholi as the culprit? Will they show it as a suicide case or murder? Considering the verdict on that is yet to come out, we doubt the show will take a clear stand.

However, it will be interesting to watch this special episode in Code Red, which is all set to go on air next week.

Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab thanked god, and the judge, for their son’s bail

Aditya Pancholi and his wife Zarina Wahab‘s 20-day ordeal of watching their only son Suraj Pancholi, an aspiring actor, imprisoned for allegedly abetting actor Jiah Khan’s suicide, has ended. The parents thank the judiciary and the god.

Suraj, who was arrested on June 10, was granted bail by the Bombay High Court on Monday. He has been ordered to pay a surety of Rs 50,000, surrender his passport and report to police whenever required for investigations.

Aditya said, “It’s finally happened. My boy is coming out. I am just so grateful to the honourable judge for being fair to us. We had begun to lose hope.” This is all he could say.

Zarina, who has been going through an agonising wait for her son’s return, said, “We knew Suraj would be out because he has done no wrong. We just didn’t know why it was taking so long. My son has gone through so much. We’ve suffered outside. But we can’t begin to imagine what he must have gone through.”

“The honourable judge has been so fair, so just in her pronouncements. Aditya and I had begun to despair. We have finally found our hope and faith again. Right now we’re only waiting for him to come home, eat ghar ka khana (home food) and sleep in his own bed. Nothing else matters,” she added.

Zarina has nothing but kind words for Jiah, who committed suicide on June 3.

“Her soul must have finally rested in peace. Jiah loved my son. She couldn’t have been happy with what was happening to Suraj. It is ironical that Jiah’s mother (Rabia Amin aka Rabiya Khan) says she wanted Suraj in jail because of Jiah when the last thing Jiah would’ve ever wanted was to see my son in distress,” said Zarina.

“I have been connecting with Jiah in my prayers. We love that girl. She deserved a far more pleasant send-off than this ugly vendetta spree,” she added.

Behind the bars for allegedly abetting Jiah Khan’s suicide, Pancholi junior has come into the limelight for the completely wrong reasons

Today the cards attempt to look behind the scenes for what conspired in the Jiah Khan-Suraj Pancholi relationship, their frame of mind and now the consequent future of Aditya Pancholi’s son Suraj.

This insight by no means is to judge someone who has passed away, but to hopefully provide another perspective to the situation.

Jiah-Suraj – The Relationship:

The Four of Wands certainly reflects of some very nice moments together, but at the same time the Page of Cups does explain an unrealistic approach to the relationship. They both certainly wanted different things from each other yet communicated quite poorly of their expectations, which meant that neither of them really heard each other. Despite such incompatibility they dragged this far too long. The Hanged Man, along with the Queen of Wands show a stop-start relationship. It was quite clear to both of them that there was no future, yet the inability to say this effectively was what caused further damage.

Being represented by cards such as the Five of Pentacles and the Queen of Swords, the cards do show that Jiah had a strong minded person, but someone who carried low self-esteem. If family support had been stronger then she would have felt less under pressure and more secure about herself. At the same time, her relationship was becoming more of a burden and her strong desire to hold on to something that no longer existed got her into further trouble. She accepted all forms of negativity that she received as she could not see anything else working for her. The Four of Swords reaffirms the unnecessary pressures she applied to make her relationship succeed.

Suraj – Past, Present & Future

On the other hand, Suraj was just too carefree and the Page of Swords explains that he probably was not guided well by his friends and family. He did what he wanted and what he was comfortable with. Currently too, despite the situation he is in, there is immense belief that he will not get into further trouble. The Star and Sun card represent his confidence in this whole battle, but he will certainly need to be less complacent if he is to come out unscathed. The Two of Wands, Ten of Cups and the Queen of Swords show strong family support rallying around him. They will make sure that he is fine, but his mother, Zarina Wahab will play a major role in this. Her personal conversations with Jiah’s family and her interactions with her son will see that the matter is resolved for him. This is going to be a tough journey for everyone in question and may take till August 2013 before it settles down.

The irony of it all is that Jiah was looking for solidity in her work and personal life. In the coming two years Suraj will receive that solidity. He will go through some further lows, but he will apply himself and look to move forward. He will do well in the field he chooses, especially as an actor since cards such as the High Priestess and the World show his ability to be an instinctive actor.

Sadly, if Jiah had not taken such a drastic step, she would have had a very successful come back into Indian films. 2014 would have been a great year. Unfortunately it was not meant to be.

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Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:45:59 +0000Shweta Parande | IANShttp://www.bollywoodlife.com/?p=235055

In a tell-all interview, the veteran actor speaks about the controversy surrounding her son’s involvement with Jiah Khan and says let him suffer the consequences if he has indeed done anything wrong

Zarina Wahab says she agrees with Jiah Khan’s mother that her son Suraj Pancholi was not the right person for the Nishabd actor, who died last week. Jiah committed suicide at her residence in Mumbai’s Juhu area on June 3. She was 25. On June 13, a Mumbai court sent Suraj, actor couple Aditya Pancholi and Zarina’s son, to judicial custody till June 27 on charges of abetting the suicide of Jiah, who used the word “rape” in a six-page letter.

On an impulse, Zarina decided to pay an unannounced visit to Jiah’s mother Rabiya Khan aka Rabia Amin on June 11. The meeting between the two grieving mothers apparently didn’t go too well.

When contacted, Zarina she said she had indeed paid Jiah’s mother a visit. “But it was not to pacify her or to work out any compromise in my son’s favour. If he has done any wrong let him suffer the consequences,” said the Chitchor fame actor.

“No, I went just as one mother reaching out to another. I suggested we go inside the house because there were a lot of media persons outside. Rabiyaji was in no mood for any conversation with me. I wouldn’t want to discuss what we spoke about.”

On June 7, police recovered a note purportedly written by the actor speaking about her disturbed relationship with her alleged boyfriend Suraj.

Jiah’s mother claims that her daughter took the drastic step not due to the lack of assignments, but due to her troubled relationship with Suraj. “When Rabiyajiji says my son Suraj was not the right person for her daughter, I completely agree with her. Jiah needed someone much more mature and experienced to take care of her,” Zarina said.

“My son is just starting out. Jiah is supposed to have said in the letter that my son never loved her the way she did. I completely agree with that. Jiah was too much in love with my son. He just couldn’t reciprocate in the same measure. But he cared deeply for her in his own way.”

Zarina revealed that on May 18 Jiah landed up at the Pancholis’ doorstep in an emotionally disturbed condition. “She told us she had quarreled with her mother. She was very upset. Suraj sat her down. He had a doctor’s appointment. So he told others in the house not to leave her alone for a single moment. Suraj knew she could harm herself,” she added.

Zarina also refutes Rabiyaji‘s claims that Suraj sent a “breakup bouquet” to Jiah on the ill-fated on Monday when she passed away. “That is nonsense. What is a breakup bouquet? Jiah told Suraj that she had signed three new films. Suraj told his assistant to order a bouquet and the card read, ‘All the Best’. I know because I found out,” she revealed.

“Suraj did not meet Jiah that Monday at all. So how could he have hit her? In fact, my son never raised his hand on Jiah or any women. I would disown him if he did. Her mother claims she has CCTV footage of my son visiting Jiah on Monday. Either she is hallucinating or lying. My son did not meet Jiah on the day she died,” said Zarina.

Cineswami feels columnist Shobhaa De’s remark on Suraj and his father Aditya Pancholi in connection with the Jiah Khan suicide might just be true

They say that apples don’t fall far from the tree and if Suraj Pancholi is indeed found guilty of misdemeanour it just proves that he has his father’s genes. For Aditya Pancholi, controversy is his handmaiden, or should we say maid? Gossip columnist Shobhaa De referred to the whole Suraj affair as ‘like father, like son’ and this just might be true. When Aditya was seeing Pooja Bedi, she accused him of statutory rape of her 15-year-old maid. Aditya’s turbulent extramarital relationship with Kangna Ranaut is also well known.

It’s not just his relationships that Aditya was in the news for. He has a history of violence. Not so long ago, he had an altercation with an airline crewmember when the pilot announced that they could not land in Goa due to bad weather. Separately, Aditya has also had an encounter with a traffic policeman and yet another with a building security guard. There are plenty more if you trawl the news archives.

Suraj, thus, has grown up watching his father’s infractions and that he’s gotten away scot-free every time. Being of a young and impressionable age, perhaps some of his father’s aggressive nature has rubbed off on him? As it is Suraj is innocent until proven guilty, it is not for us to judge him, there is a judiciary for that. It’s been known to work once in a while.

Meanwhile, all we can do is mourn the unfortunate and untimely death of a young woman and send our thoughts and prayers to Jiah Khan’s mother Rabia Amin aka Rabiya Khan and the rest of her family.

The late actor’s mom reveals Jiah was making enough money and did not commit suicide out of work-related pressures

A week after Jiah Khan’s suicide, her mother Rabiya Khan aka Rabia Amin opened up about the reason behind her daughter’s death, claiming the drastic step was not due to the lack of assignments but due to her troubled relationship with her alleged boyfriend Suraj, son of actor Aditya Pancholi. “My point is to tell you the truth. It is being said that she was depressed and had no work, but it was not the case,” said Rabiya, who has three daughters – Jiah, Karishma and Kavita – at a press conference.

“She was attending at least three to four events a month. She was making money and was living comfortably in her house with two maids and even had a car and a driver. It was the insecurity that her love was not respected and recognised that was killing her day by day,” said Rabiya.

Bollywood actress Nafisa alias Jiah Khan, who debuted opposite Amitabh Bachchan in Nishabd, committed suicide at her residence in Mumbai’s Juhu area June 3. She was 25.

“Jiah was a poetess…she had a diary in which she wrote all her poems. I wanted my daughters to recite them at prayer ceremony, but we couldn’t find the diary. I couldn’t get myself to touch Jiah’s things, so I told my daughter (Kavita) to look. She (Jiah) had a Prada wallet box and her sister found the letter in it,” said Rabiya.

All Jiah wanted was love, she added.

The letter, where Jiah had penned her troubled relationship with her Suraj, was found by her sister Kavita Saturday and was handed over to the police. Although the letter doesn’t mention any name but talks about the sorry state of Jiah’s relationship. “After all the pain, the rape, the abuse, the torture I have seen previously I didn’t deserve this. I didn’t see any love or commitment from you. I just became increasingly scared that you would hurt me mentally or physically….,” the letter said.

“I aborted our baby when it hurt me deeply. You promised me once we made it to one year we would get engaged. All you want in life is partying, your women and your selfish motives. All I wanted was you and my happiness you took both away from me,” the letter added.

Talking about the letter, Rabiya confessed that there were many things in it that she wasn’t aware of. “I knew about his (Suraj’s) abusing her and not respecting her and also about the presents and the Goa trip. But I found out other aspects, which were hurtful,” she said.

“The letter does not have a name, so who it is addressed to is something you can only ask Jiah. But because of the incidents in the past and what she told me, all of these things point out to Suraj Pancholi,” she said.

Talking about the things Jiah shared with her, she said that they had a detailed discussion about Jiah’s relationship with Suraj when she had visited her in London a few months back. “When she came to London during her birthday, I saw that she always had tears in her eyes. I asked her if this was regarding Suraj and she started crying…she said that he abuses her and shouts at her. When he drinks, he can’t handle himself,” Rabiya said.

“I asked her to lay off for a while. I told her that in a relationship space is the most important… She had tried to cut down, out of his 10 calls she used to answer just two. This was the time when I came to know about the nature of the boy,” she added.

Jiah had confided in her mother that Aditya was unhappy about his son’s relationship with her. “She said that ever since it came in the papers that Jiah and Suraj were dating, the father created a scene. He told him that Jiah was much elder to him, but Jiah told me that it was hardly a year. So Suraj was aware that his father didn’t like the relationship,” Rabiya said.

She also clarified that Aditya came to see Jiah’s body only after the police had come. “In my house, only Anju (Mahendroo) and her friend came. I called my family members…three to four families came. After three hours, Aditya came and Suraj didn’t even come. He must have got to know, but he never came,” she said.

The Bollywood actor who committed suicide on Monday night was laid to rest this afternoon

Actor Jiah Khan, who committed suicide by hanging herself at her Juhu residence, was laid to rest at Santacruz graveyard in Mumbai. Her funeral was held this afternoon. Jiah’s sister and her mother Rabia Amin were inconsolable. Her boyfriend, Suraj Pancholi, was in tears too. He came along with his father and actor Aditya Pancholi to bid Jiah a final farewell.

The UK-born actor was found hanging at her flat in Sagar Sangeet building in the posh Juhu area of northwest Mumbai Monday midnight. She lived with her mother and sister who were not at home when she ended her life.

Tuesday night actor Aamir Khan, who worked with Jiah in Ghajini, visited her residence around 11.30 pm and met her mother.

The actor starred in Aamir’s 2008 blockbuster Ghajini and her mother Rabia Amin is close to the Khan family

Nishabd actor Jiah Khan’s suicide on the night of June 3 came as a jolt to the entire Bollywood, and friends and family gathered around Jiah’s mother Rabia Amin Khan aka Rabiya Amin and her two sisters to offer support. Aamir Khan, who cast Jiah in his 2008 record-breaking film Ghajini, also paid a visit to Jiah’s house to offer his condolences. The actor’s wife Kiran Rao and his sister and mother accompanied him too.

Jiah’s mom starred in films like Ankush, Locket and Geraftaar, to name a few. She is close to Aamir’s family and insiders say Jiah was Aamir’s cousin.

Jiah was last seen in Sajid Khan’s Housefull. Reports suggest she committed suicide due to a sagging film career and a failing relationship with Aditya Pancholi’s son Suraj Pancholi. Jiah’s funeral will be held today at the Juhu cemetery in Mumbai.

Police investigations in the case are on. Keep watching this space for updates.